Display box



April 20, 1954 B. L. THURSTON 2,675,911

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'jx/O 25 /5 INVENTOR. Bgujamin L. Thurston Attorneys Patented Apr. 20,1954 DISPLAY BOX Benjamin Leonard Thurston, Pawtucket, RJL, assignor toFrost Box (30., Inc., a corporation of Rhode Island Application March27, 1952, Serial No. 278,860

. 3 Claims. 1

type which is made wholly of cardboard.

Heretofore, display boxes have been in various forms in which when thecover is lifted, the contents of the box are exposed to view. Sometimesthe cover is entirely removed from the body of the box and used to tiltthe box for the display of the contents.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide an arrangement in thebox so that when the cover of the box is lifted or swung about its hingeconnection to the body, the merchandise or articles which are containedwithin the body of the box will be lifted with relation to the body ofthe box so as to be displayed at an angle which will be more effectivethan were the merchandise Within the body of the box lying on a surfaceparallel to that which supports the box.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device which is madeentirely of cardboard with hinge connections of the parts formed byfolding the cardboard or scoring it so that it may be swung about thescore line as a hinge connection.

Another object of the invention is to provide an arrangement so thatwhen the cover of the box is swung from open to closed position, thecontents which is being displayed will drop into the body of the box tobe completely protected by the cover.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simple and yet effectiveconstruction which will be inexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction as will be more fully described andparticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l is a perspective View of the box in open position;

Figure 2 is a sectional view on line 2--2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a sectional view showing the box in closed position and theplate which swings out of the body of the box lowered into the body inthis housed position.

In proceeding with this invention I have provided a body section and acover section therefor, and in the body section I have located a platewhich is hinged along the front wall of the body section, and I haveprovided an arm which is connected by links to the body section and tothe cover section so that as the cover is swung from closed to openposition, the plate will be lifted or swung about its hinge connectionso as to present it at an angle to the bottom wall of the box and 2 thusmore advantageously display any merchandise which may be attached to theplate.

With reference to the drawings, the body section of the box isdesignated l0, while the cover section is designated H. These sectionsare hinged together by any hinge means as may be desired such as a paperor cloth hinge. I

The body section comprises a bottom wall l2 having opposite side walls13 and [4 with a front wall l5 and a back wall It. The cover sectioncomprises a top wall I! with opposite side walls l8 and I9, a front wall20, and a back wall 2i. A cloth hinge 22 is cemented along the outersurfaces of the back walls I6 and 2! to hingedly connect the back wallsof the sections together. When in closed position, the upstanding wallsof the body section engage in edge to edge abutting relation with thedownwardly depending walls from the top Wall ll of the cover section. Alip 23 is secured about the inner surface of the upstanding walls l3,l4, l5, 16 of the body section so as to provide a guide over which thedepending walls l8, I9, 20, 2| of the cover section may telescope and beguided into closed position.

Within the body section there is provided a plate 24 which is scored asat 25 to provide a hinge between the main portion of the plate and aportion 26 which is secured to the body section adjacent the front wallthereof and adjacent the junction of the front wall with the bottomwall. An upwardly extending reinforcement 21 extends along inside of thefront and side walls of the body section while this portion 26 ispositioned between this reinforcement and the front wall. The plate 24is free at its edge 28 to swing upwardly about its hinge 25. An arm 29is located beneath the plate, preferably centrally thereof, and isconnected by a link 30 to the body section at substantially the junctionof the bottom wall [2 and back wall I6, the securing being by means of aportion 3| connected to the link 30 by a score line 32 to provide thishinge relation, while the same type of connection 33 is provided to thearm 29 by a score line between the parts. A link 34 which may be formedof the same piece of cardboard as 29 is scored and folded as at 35 atthe end of the arm 29 to provide a hinge connection therewith, while itis also scored as at 36 so that the portion 31 thereof may be secured tothe inner under surface of the top wall of the box, thus connecting thelink 34 at substantially the juncture of the top wall I1 and back wall2| of the box.

By this arrangement when the cover is moved from the closed positionshown in Figure 3 to the open position shown in Figure 2, the arm 29will be drawn from the lowered position in the body, as shown in Figure3, of the box to the position shown in Figure 2 by reason of the linkarrangement so that the end of the arm 29 will engage, slide along, andswing the plate 24 about its hinge connection 25 into the inclinedposition shown in Figures 1 and 2. It will be apparent that when thecover is swung to its closed position from the open position, themovement will be reversed, dropping the plate into the body of the boxwith such articles as may be secured thereon.

A flexible tape 40 may limit the upward swinging movement of the coverabout its hinge.

I claim:

1. A display box comprising a body section having a bottom wall withupstanding side, front, and back walls, a cover section having atop withdepending side, front, and back walls, means for hinging the back wallsof the body and cover sections together, a plate in the body sectionhinged adjacent and along an axis parallel to the front wall thereofwith a free edge adjacent the back wall, an arm located beneath saidplate, one end of said arm being adapted for sliding engagement withsaid plate, a link hingedly secured at one end to the cover sectionadjacent the juncture of the top and back walls and hingedly 4 connectedat its other end to said one end of said arm, a second link hingedlysecured at one end to the body section adjacent the junction of thebottom and back wall and also hingedly connected at its other end to theother end of said arm whereby when said cover is moved from closed toopen position, the arm is swung upwardly engaging and lifting the plate,swinging it about its hinge connection.

2. A display box as in claim 1 wherein the links and arm are of a singlepiece of cardboard scored to be hingedly connected together in tandemrelation.

3. A display box as in claim 1 wherein the links have portions folded attheir ends to connect the links to the body and cover sections.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS NumberName Date 371,182 Evans Oct. 11, 1887 1,666,001 Catala Apr. 10, 19281,966,351 Lewis July 10, 1934 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date283,331 Great Britain Jan. 12, 1928

